I have a Visual Basic program CD that I developed several years ago. However, when trying to install it on my W7 computer I get the error message: "Error 1324. The path Chuck's Data contains an invalid character". Any idea what's causing this error and is there anything I can do about it?

The error message appears to be saying that one of the characters in the folder path you have chosen is unacceptable.

You might solve this by checking the path where you are installing and remove any characters that might cause the problem. For instance, I would start by taking the apostrophe out of "Chuck's Data" - perhaps that is the invalid character. Basically, any character that is not a letter or a number could be a suspect - even spaces weren't acceptable in very old versions of Windows and still aren't acceptable in web urls.

Unfortunately I have no way to get inside the setup.exe file on the CD to change or even determine what the path is. The CD loads just fine on XP. I wonder what W7 has done to change the way programs load. Is there some default path that W7 uses? I wonder if this is related to another problem I see sometimes (but can't remember the particulars). When starting up a program I sometimes get a pop up saying there is no disk in the drive (or some similar wording) whereas I am not trying to load anything from a drive. I just cancel the pop up and things work normally, but I have no idea why W7 is looking for a disk in the first place.

Installing from the hard drive results in the same problem. Also, I cannot install the XP mode option as I'm running W7 Home Premium, and as I understand it the XP Mode option can only be installed on the W7 Ultimate (or whatever is above the Home Premium level). Looks like I'm stuck. I have several other older programs that simply won't install on W7.

Thanks for the suggested links; however, those articles refer to XP whereas I'm running W7. They suggested searching the registry for a reference to the path with the error (in this case "Chuck's Data"). I've searched the registry using regedit and I've searched the entire drive using the W7 search facility for "Chuck's Data", but it isn't there anywhere. So I"m at a loss here.